"I want to be a backup dancer for Beyoncé," she confessed. "I feel like that's every dancer's secret dream is to be a backup dancer for Beyoncé especially with her new tour."

She once battled with unhealthy eating, and is educating others about nutrition.

It might be hard to think that Shields ever had a problem with eating healthy foods. But she's only human and said she began to make bad food choices in college, which led to bouts with health problems.

That's part of the reason she chose her "Eat Better, Live Better" Miss America platform. She wants to educate others about healthy eating.

"I think sometimes healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle comes with negative connotations and scary connotations,” she told Fayetteville's KSFM. "So my thing in learning about this process, the only thing I need to learn is tactical and tangible ways to do so."